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National Umbrella Day is a holiday celebrated on February 10th, commemorating the invention of one of the most used pieces of personal weather protection a person will ever own. Umbrellas are useful for keeping rain or sunlight off a person and are portable enough to take just about anywhere. So why not take the time out of your busy day and spend a few moments celebrating a piece of equipment that many of us use regularly but few people think about.

The History Of Umbrellas
Although we couldn’t uncover the origins of National Umbrella Day—other than people started celebrating it somewhere between 2000 and 2004—we did manage to uncover quite a bit about the history of the umbrella, information that we would like to share with everyone.

Probably the first instance of an umbrella was around 2450 B.C. This is when the Egyptians invented an umbrella out of lotus leaves and/or feathers and attached them to a stick. These umbrellas were used to shield royalty from the sun and, for all intents and purposes, they worked quite well.